[Mailman-Users] big lists, big messages

[J C Lawrence]

On Sun, 13 May 2001 01:21:52 -0700 (PDT) 
tib  <tib at tigerknight.org> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 May 2001, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
>> On 5/13/01 12:22 AM, "Tib" <tib at tigerknight.org> wrote: 

>> If the piece of email is sponsored and has advertising, it's a
>> HUGE problem.  As was the original poster's note on this stuff.

> If you're running on a 384k dsl then the only advertising is the
> stuff you put up yourself because it's your server.

Unsupoortable assumption.  

> I would think this would be a bit the opposite. For your mail
> server to push anything it has to look up records on the domain
> it's going to send to (which for 10k users I would assume to be a
> lot of domains)...

Which given a local cacheing name server with reasonably large and
enforced minimum TTLs is a small overhead.

> Again it would seem to me that the webserver would have an easier
> time with the load than the mail server.

Web server traffic is controllable, bandwidth profiles poorly (users
complain), is unschedulable and tends to be bursty.  Mail traffic is
implicitly controllable, bandwidth profiles easily, is schedulable,
and is as flat as you care to make it.

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